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[Robert] [Pollock] : The Course of Time [extract]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast river of unfailing source/ Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his number flowed/ And op'ed new fountains in the human heart...'; [total = 86 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine      Print: Unknown

Robert Pollock : The Course of Time

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I confess it appeared to me an extroardinary [sic] work for a young poet -- full of grand conceptions half formed -- & tracked everywhere with unequal staggering footsteps of genius.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Robert Pollock : The Course of Time

‘I have also long ponder’d on a Poem, which could I execute up to my conception, would perhaps take rank with Pollock’s [sic] Course of Time.’

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge      Print: Book

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